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Daughter finds closure in family’s war story Strawberry Festival carnival is canceled
Islander will travel to France for liberation commemoration By SUSAN RIEMER For The Beachcomber
Later this month islander Nancy Bachant will follow in her father’s footsteps when she travels to Rennes, France, where he was killed during World War ll. There, she and her family will participate in events commemorating the city’s 70th anniversary of liberation from Germany. Bachant and her sisters Karen and Janet — a set of triplets — were born in May of 1944, just months before their father, Herbert Bachant, died near Rennes when German fire hit his military vehicle. Shortly after his death, Bachant and her sisters came to be known as the Bachant Triplets and were featured in newspapers across the country with their mother, who had been widowed at just 22 years old. Now, after researching that time and finding one of the sisters online, a military historian in Rennes has invited the three women to be part of the community’s commemoration event, which will be held early next month, marking its Aug. 4 liberation date. A story about the women’s impending arrival has been carried in at least one Rennes newspaper. “This will close the circle,” Bachant said last week at her home overlooking KVI beach. “It’s closure. Now you know the end of the story. He did not die in vain.” Bachant calls herself the family historian,
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Nancy Bachant shows a scrapbook she has put together chronicling part of her family’s story. and a trip to her home shows the results of her efforts, with framed tributes, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings telling the family’s story. For many years, Bachant knew little about
her father, but began researching his life and death when she was in her 50s. For a long SEE WORLD WAR II, 19
VYFS hopes to break world record on the harbor Nonprofit begins push for kayakers to sign up By NATALIE MARTIN Staff Writer
With one month to go until it attempts to break a world record, Vashon Youth & Family Services is looking to recruit around 2,500 people to take to Quartermaster Harbor in kayaks and canoes for a gathering that organizers hope will be fun as well as bring in needed funds for the social
services agency. This month VYFS is starting a registration push for Raft Up, an Aug. 17 event where those involved will attempt to set a world record for the number of kayaks and canoes rafted up at one time. VYFS Executive Director Kathleen Johnson said she believes about 500 people are already planning to come that day with their boats, but far fewer have completed the online registration which recently opened up and far Hovershots APV Photo
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An aerial shot of the record-holding raft-up, which took place last year in Michigan.
A contract disagreement has resulted in the cancellation of the Strawberry Festival carnival, leading festival organizers to say it may be time to rethink the carnival’s place at Vashon’s annual celebration. The Vashon-Maury Island Chamber of Commerce, which puts on the Strawberry Festival, announced on Monday that after several days of unsuccessful contract negotiations with the carnival company, it couldn’t reach an agreement and there will be no carnival at this weekend’s festival. The contract proposed by the company, Paradise Amusement, was one that Chamber Director Jim Marsh said would have put the chamber at too much financial risk. “I’m a little shell shocked,” Marsh said Monday evening, explaining his disappointment that the carnival fell through. “It was too much of a gargantuan risk to take.” Laura Griffith, a chamber board member, said she, too, was disappointed at the turn of events days before the festival. “I’m not a big fan of carnivals myself, but I think there needs to be something for kids because there are a lot of kids on the island,” she said, adding that she worries some families won’t be as inclined to come to the festival this year. A representative of Paradise Amusements, Kacee Quintana, said on Monday that he was unable to comment on the contract negotiations, and other representatives of the company could not be reached. Quintana said logistical issues played into the decision to not come to the festival this year and that the company regrets not being able to put on the carnival. Normally, he said, carnival rides would have begun arriving on the island Monday evening. SEE CARNIVAL, 23
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Ferry worker found dead after being detained following incident on ferry Worker had been convicted of accessing child pornography By NATALIE MARTIN Staff Writer
A ferry worker on Vashon’s north-end route was found dead in his cell at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac last weekend after being taken into custody on suspicion that he violated his probation. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Steven Allen Dailey, 50, died by suicide Saturday at the detention center. Dailey was taken into federal custody on Friday for allegedly violating his probation, according to Connie Smith, Chief US Probation and Pretrial Services Officer. While Smith declined to give details of the incident that led to Dailey’s arrest, several local media outlets reported that Dailey had been seen on the Tillikum ferry taking pictures of young girls on his cell phone. Sgt. DB Gates, a spokesman for the King County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed that deputies were called to Vashon’s northend ferry terminal to investigate after Dailey was reported to have taken photos of girls. However, deputies did not arrest
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Man arrested for weekend rape on Vashon A 56-year-old man was arrested and booked into King County jail for an alleged rape on Saturday, according to DB Gates, a spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff’s Office. The alleged assailant is listed as a transient. The victim is an adult female resident of Vashon. The rape is reported to have occurred in the victim’s vehicle in the 11100 block of SW Cemetery Road on Saturday afternoon. It was not a stranger rape, Gates said, as the victim knew the suspect through mutual acquaintances. The man appeared in court Monday afternoon, when bail was set at $25,000. As of press time Tuesday morning, he was still in jail and had not yet been charged. The Beachcomber does not name suspects unless they are charged. — Susan Riemer Sarah Low/Staff Photo
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Construction begins on 9-11 memorial in town By SARAH LOW For The Beachomber
Vashon Island Fire & Rescue’s 9-11 memorial has gone from plan to reality, as the first of its pieces was set in place on Thursday. Chief Hank Lipe, who has driven the project since the fire station obtained a piece of steel from the fallen World Trade Center (WTC) three years ago, was on hand for the long-awaited occasion. “You can see me pacing. This is how I feel when my daughter is just about to race,” said Lipe, whose daughter is a rower. “It’s
nerve wracking. We’ve been working on this for three years.” The anxiety Lipe referred to was due to the logistics of actually building the memorial, which is comprised of multiple pieces of columnar basalt from the Columbia River basin that will stand vertically to represent the New York city skyline. One of those columns will have the steel piece embedded in it, representing the destruction caused by the attack. “We wanted to make this interactive,” said Bob Horsley, a landscape
architect and the memorial’s designer. “It’s not just something to look at; there will be a bench and sitting stones in among the columns so people can actually be a part of it.” There will also be a special fire hose coiled around the bottom of one of the columns to represent the firefighters. The construction of the memorial has been delayed primarily due to slow county permitting processes and fundraising needs, but they’ve now cleared the biggest hurdles, Lipe explained, although there
are ongoing expenses. “People may not realize that there is no public or taxpayer money involved in this project,” Lipe said. “The entire project has been privately supported through gifts and donations.” Placement of each piece requires a crane and precise placement over rebar pins to prevent the pieces from cracking. After placing the first column on Thursday, it was determined that a larger crane would be needed to properly manage the height and weight of the remaining pieces. Lipe said that they have the new
crane scheduled to come at the end of July. From there, the memorial’s completion will entail laying stonework over the concrete base and landscaping. Lipe said the station hopes to have it ready by this year’s anniversary of Sept. 11. “We’re so close now.” Lipe said, “It will be nice for the community and for us to finally see this completed.” Donations are still being accepted for VIFR’s 9-11 memorial project. To contribute, go to Station 55 on Bank Rd.
Islander charged with assault Island resident Benjamin Munday has been accused of biting off part of another man’s ear during a fight on July 6 and has been charged with assault. Munday was arrested and booked into the King County jail on July 7; bail was later set at $10,000. According to jail records, Munday was still in jail at press time Tuesday. Police records indicate that Munday was hired to do construction work at a home on Cove Walk owned by a friend. The two men had an altercation, and Munday bit off part of the other man’s ear. This is the second time Munday has been incarcerated in the last year. In August of 2013, he was jailed for about six weeks for propositioning girls ages 12 and 13 in Vashon town.
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Schools pass budget for next year with $1 million in added revenue Foundation funds helped fill district’s budget gap, purchase textbooks By NATALIE MARTIN Staff Writer
The Vashon Island School District has finalized a budget for next school year that maintains district programs, provides staff previously approved raises and adds parttime custodial and technology positions as well as a new Spanish preschool program. “There were very few changes,” said Superintendent Michael Soltman, explaining that the district was not required to make any cuts for next school year. “We’re very stabl,e and we have adequate reserves.” Last Thursday Vashon’s school board unanimously approved the $17.5 million spending plan, which is about $1 million larger than the 2013-2014 budget. The added revenue comes largely from increased state funding and local tax revenue based on enrollment. Last year the district’s enrollment grew by about 50 students, all of
whom came from on-island. About half the district’s added revenue will go to salary and benefit increases for teachers and other staff. Last year the teacher’s union negotiated 8 percent raises over three years for the district’s roughly 100 teachers, librarians and counselors. At the time, district and union officials said the pay increases, which were approved by the school board, would put Vashon salaries closer to those of other districts in the area, though Soltman said the district’s pay is still at the bottom of that range. Staff received 3 percent pay increases last school year as part of their new contract and will receive another 3 percent next school year, then 2 percent the next. Principals also received 5 to 10 percent raises to be implemented over three years. The spending plan approved last week also adds a half-time custodial position needed due to increased janitorial needs at the new high school as well as a half-time technology position that Soltman said is needed because of the increasing use of technology at the district. “Everything is on the network now,” he
said. The Vashon Schools Foundation raised about $235,000 this spring, short of its $500,000 goal. Soltman said the contribution was still enough to bridge the district’s small budget gap of about $150,000 and purchase new math curriculum for the elementary school — half of which was funded by the PTSA — as well as badly needed textbooks at the middle and high schools. “It allows us to fulfill our commitment to update curriculum,” he said. Also approved in the new budget is a new Spanish preschool that the district plans to begin this fall. The preschool will be mostly funded by a $132,000 grant the schools recently garnered from the state’s Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program and will serve up to 24 Spanish speaking preschoolers next year. Those students will then have the opportunity to attend Spanish kindergarten at Chautauqua, a program also added in recent years. Soltman said he expects to see some added funding from the state for the preschool program, and the district may contribute some money for it as well.
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In the summer, it’s best to be a pool rat
Bad news for festival is also an opportunity to evolve
A laugh track bleats from a TV down the hall while five-fingered maple leaves wave listlessly in mid-July afternoon heat. Our children are bundled up in the cool shade of the TV room, watching an insipid teen comedy while I’m seated at a computer, working from home after a week’s vacation. For the third time in less than an hour, one of our children fidgets at my elbow, asking in a low voice if we can go to the pool. No, we can’t go to the pool, I answer, draining the last drops of patience from an upended canteen. I have work to do. Check back in an hour. Go outside and play, I advise, pointing to the dusty-dry front yard and the mirror-still harbor beyond. I’m dialed into work, and the connection is slow. The mouse pointer stutters. I have an irritating kinesthetic sensation of muscle weakness, like I’m too feeble to budge the mouse pointer frozen on the screen. Our oldest boy appears, and before he can speak, I hold up my hand for silence and explain the deal I made with the last emissary from the TV room. No pool discussion for at least an hour. He watches the computer screen for a moment. “Dad, there’s Wi-Fi at the pool.” He connects the dots for me. “You could dial-in from the pool, Dad.“ I watch the screen refresh a quarter-page at a time. He’s right. “Do you know the password?” He furrows his brow for a moment, and replies “It’s like fun in the sun or something.” I stare out the window. The dog is squirming on his back in the parched grass, grunting while he struggles to scratch an itch. “OK,” I say, tentatively. The dog jumps to his feet and sneezes. Shouts echo
The Strawberry Festival means different things to different people, as people come to Vashon’s summertime celebration for a variety of reasons — the music, the food and booths, the parade. For many who have kids or have been kids on Vashon (or both), the carnival has been a big part of the Strawberry Festival experience. It’s been one of the only places for young people at the festival, and it seems to round out the weekend by providing that quintessential fair experience, the kind of thing kids live for in the summertime. That’s why it will come as a disappointment to many that the carnival has been canceled at the last-minute this year. However, islanders should stick with the Strawberry Festival while Vashon’s chamber of commerce goes through what could become a transition year for the festival. There may be surprising results. At The Beachcomber, we share an office building with the chamber, so we get a glimpse of how hard they work each year on the Strawberry Festival. The chamber director and the event coordinator, supported by a band of board members and volunteers, put untold hours into the planning and preparing for the festival, and they do it with smiles that could only be worn by those who really care about the event. The carnival certainly didn’t fall through for their lack of effort. On Monday the chamber director, Jim Marsh, and a board member still managed to smile as they delivered the bad news about the carnival. While the turn of events is a certainly a “bummer,” as Marsh put it, they’d already been thinking for some time about whether the carnival is still viable on Vashon. Two carnival companies now have not made as much revenue as they’d like at the Strawberry Festival. It wasn’t possible to get Paradise Amusements’ full side of the story about the contract dispute, but it makes sense that the company would only come out if it’s worth it financially. To add to the carnival troubles, organizers have struggled to bring good rides on the island, and there are fewer and fewer spots where they can be located. The spot the chamber had to go with this year was small and far from ideal. The carnival, its seems, is getting harder to put on. The festival can seem like the same thing year after year, but it has evolved slowly. It’s grown to include a huge amount of local music, and it now showcases local art as well. Wine tasting has been absent in recent years, but the Miss Lucy Dinner, which is new on the scene, has quickly gained a following, as has the new Heritage Stage area, billed as place to relax. The chamber sees that it could be time rethink what the festival offers for kids. Perhaps this will just mean taking a new approach to its contract with the festival company. But they also see that just because there’s always been a carnival at the festival doesn’t mean it’s the best option. Kids also have different interests now than when the carnival first began. With all of the creative minds on Vashon and plenty of time until next year’s festival, it’s possible the island can come up with a new tradition that’s just as good, or even better, than the carnival.
FAMILY MATTERS By KEVIN POTTINGER in the entryway as the kids assemble swimsuits, towels, goggles, pingpong balls. It’s a beautiful day. We’re headed to the pool. I have loads of work to do. While the kids disappear into gender-appropriate locker rooms, I open the metal door at the end of a concrete-block hallway. I’m stunned by brilliant sunshine and the shouts of teenaged boys with brand new deep male voices, playing king-of-the-hill on square-blue foam mats in choppy clear-blue water. Grade-school boys seemingly made of rusty wire scamper around the pool, their swimsuits hanging on them as if on metal hangers. Young women, looking as if their swimsuit model tour bus broke down somewhere on Monument Road, dangle tanned legs in the cool blue water. Guys like me, looking like there’s enough extra material to make a couple more people out of them, lie beached on deck chairs like groaning sea lions. At the opposite end of the pool, a bandy-legged barefoot boy in baggy swim-trunks walks gingerly on the exposed aggregate, his arms folded around skinny ribs, tanned-ocher skin slick and wet. He bounces on the end of a diving board and lands in the center of the pool with a sharp slap, wet skin on unyielding blue water. The kids and I make our way to a pair of white vinyl deck chairs.
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Moms in modest one-piece swimsuits look up from their books, recognizing our children and searching the faces behind me for my wife Maria. This is Maria’s turf. I’m a stand-in, a sub. The moms smile faintly and return to their books. No Maria. Our youngest boy reveals that he and his twin sister have become pool rats this summer. Their oldest brother, apparently a senior pool rat, explains that pool rats aren’t anything official. The pool manager sometimes trades ice cream “and chips!” our youngest girl interjects gleefully, for small jobs — sweeping the entrance, weeding a small plot of flowers. Our youngest boy says that it feels great to be a pool rat now. He shrugs and wanders off to earn a vanilla-fudge Drumstick while our oldest boy slides imperceptibly into a knot of older pool rats at the other end of the pool. A couple of them are wearing pants and laceup shoes. I self-consciously open my laptop. I can’t see the screen at all in the sun’s full glare. I try to nestle the screen in the half-moon of shade beneath my belly. At the edge of the pool, our oldest girl waves and slips gracefully into the cool blue water, a faint blue mermaid camouflaged against the blue walls of the pool, her hair trailing behind her like a brunette comet. With a few scissor-strokes, she surfaces at the far end of the pool. I type in the fun-in-the-sun Wi-Fi password written on a sticky-note. After a few seconds, my laptop gives an out-of-battery warning. I fold up the laptop with a click. I’m getting nothing done. But I bet I’d make a great pool rat.
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imbalances align to overwhelm a person’s capacity to cope and distort their grasp on reality. There’s no rule to predict who suffers like this. More people than we might imagine. Why not the most conscientious of gun owners? Also, though I don’t have any statistics in front of me, I do know there have been plenty of shootings perpetrated by individuals without any history of mental illness who nonetheless “went postal.” They had one stress too many, one loss too many, piled on top of an already shaky self esteem. Are we all so confident in our inner strength to say this couldn’t be us? If we insist on seeing others as the problem, we set up a dangerous situation. Perhaps conscientious gun owners should also own their own vulnerabilities and those of the people in their households who might access their guns and plan for what should be done with their guns if the individual(s) become depressed or erratic in a way that is worrisome. And perhaps all of us have a reason to show compassion to those who suffer from mental illness and advocate for the best care they, or maybe we, can receive. — Michele Houston
Thriftway’s stand is reasonable and safety-minded I am writing regarding last week’s letter about Thriftway’s new gun policy. I am sure the writer is a well-trained, careful gun owner. However, every group from stamp collectors to gun owners has its idiot fringe group. Your idiot fringe group makes you look very bad. I, and I believe a whole lot of my fellow islanders, do not want to grocery shop with a bunch of yahoos with assault rifles
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slung over their shoulders. I thank Norm for his stand. It speaks to his desire to keep his customers and staff safe. — Connie DuFresne
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It makes sense to avoid harmful products Regarding the article about honeybee decline (“Honeybee decline causes concern on Vashon,” July 9), there is one thing that wasn’t mentioned. Many “bee friendly” home garden plants sold at Home Depot, Lowe’s and other leading garden centers have been pre-treated with pesticides shown to harm and kill bees. As one of the many new beekeepers on the island, I am concerned for my new friends and want them to be healthy. You can buy plants at these stores thinking you are helping the bees and unwittingly cause much harm. I am grateful to any store that agrees to stop carrying these lethal products and hope that they research the practices of their wholesalers as well. If these chemicals are banned in many other countries and are proven to harm birds, bees and butterflies, wouldn’t it naturally follow that, perhaps, we don’t want them around ourselves? The big corporations who profit from these poisons obviously have more clout than we do with our own government or they wouldn’t be able to keep poisoning us. These types of grass roots activities are all we can do, so let’s.
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ONGOING Edra’s Picnics in the Park: The Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank hosts activities and free lunches for kids age 3 to 17 at noon every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Ober Park. Vashon Opera: Tickets are now on sale online for the Vashon Opera’s upcoming sixth season. Performances will include “Don Giovanni,” “The Music Shop “and “Albert Herring,” and season tickets offer $3 off of individual ticket prices. To purchase, go to vashonopera.org.
WEDNESDAY • 16 All Island Forum: All are invited to explore how their personal stories intersect with their sense of community. This will be the final meeting in the series “Sharing Story: Making Visible the Invisible.” A new All Island Forum series will begin in the fall. 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Vashon Library meeting room.
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An Evening of Music at Sporty’s: Country punk band The Four Horsemen will play with special guests Happy Accident, Glenn the Ukelele Man and Frosty & Wilke. 8 p.m. at the Sportsman’s Inn.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Ends July 24. How to Train Your Dragon 2: Opens July 25. The Fault in our Stars: Runs July 25 through 28.
SATURDAY • 19 Pancake Breakfast: The Vashon Sportsmen’s Club will now host this Strawberry Festival tradition. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $5 for kids age 10 and younger, or can be purchased in advance for $1 off at The Vashon Bookshop, James Hair Design and the Barber and Beauty Shoppe. 7 to 11 a.m. in the IGA parking lot. Bill Burby 10k and 5k runs/5k walk: Registration and check-in tables will be open at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of the VYFS PlaySpace. For more information and to register, go to billburbyrace. org. Races begin at 9 a.m. Farmers Market: There will be no market this week due to Strawberry Festival. Watch next week’s paper for details about its return on July 26. Adopt-a-Cat Day: Vashon Island Pet Protectors (VIPP) hosts a cat adoption day every Saturday. See www.vipp.org for directions or call VIPP at 389-1085. 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at VIPP’s cat house, 12200 SW 243rd St. Friends of the Vashon Library T-Shirt Sale: New colors with the ferry logo and canvas carryall bags will be available. Adult sizes and bags cost $15 and children’s sizes cost $12, with all proceeds going to library pro-
PUBLIC MEETINGS Vashon Sewer District: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at the Vashon Senior Center. King County Airport District: 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, at Courthouse Square. Vashon-Maury Island Community Council: 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 21, at the EOC in the fire station on Bank Rd. Vashon Island Fire & Rescue: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at Station 55. Vashon Park District: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at Ober Park.
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grams. 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in front of the libary. Swing Dance Lesson: The Vashon Social Dance Group will offer a free swing dance lesson before the Portage Fill street dance. All are welcome and partners aren’t necessary. 6 p.m. in front of Sporty’s.
SUNDAY •20 Pancake Breakfast: The Vashon Sportsmen’s Club will now host this Strawberry Festival tradition. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $5 for kids age 10 and younger, or can be purchased in advance for $1-off at The Vashon Bookshop, James Hair Design and the Barber and Beauty Shoppe. 8 a.m. to noon in the IGA parking lot. Burton Community Church: BCC will welcome Harmon Arroyo back to the pulpit. The service theme will be “welcoming new life,” and the service will include the baptism of 1-year-old Jesper Peck. Service begins at 11 a.m.
MONDAY • 21 Vashon-Maury Island Community Council: The July general meeting will focus on new board members, the Vashon Town Plan and other issues brought by the public. Note the new location for summer meetings. 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the EOC at the fire station on Bank Rd.
TUESDAY • 22 Attracting Birds to Your Backyard: Ed Swan, author of “The Birds of Vashon Island,” will
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talk about how to choose diverse plants to make a yard closely resemble local wildlife habitat. Swan will also show photos and play recordings of island birds. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon Senior Center.
UPCOMING Archaeology Day : The VashonMaury Island Heritage Museum will offer two opportunities to learn more about Vashon’s native people. The first event is an artifact identification session in the museum. Expert archaeologists will be on hand to help identify islanders’ native artifacts. The second event is a presentation of archaeological research and projects on Vashon, with an opportunity for questions afterward. For more information, go to vashonhistory.org/events. Artifact identification will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Heritage Museum; Archaeology of Vashon Island presentation will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 26, at the Land Trust Building. St. John Vianney Salmon Bake: The church will host its annual fundraiser, which includes the salmon bake, rummage, raffle and bake sales, silent auction, live music by Loose Change and a beer garden. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $5 for kids ages 5 to 12, and children under age 5 are free. Tickets can be purchased at the Vashon Pharmacy, Vashon Book-
shop and St. John Vianney office. 1:15 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27, at St. John Vianney. Senior Center 30th Birthday Bash and Fundraiser: The center is 30 years young and all are invited to celebrate. Kick off your shoes and dance to the music of Portage Fill, bid on silent auction items and enjoy hors d’oeuvres with wine, beer or the special senior center cocktail available for purchase at the no-host bar. Tickets cost $30 and can be purchased at the senior center or the Vashon Bookshop. All proceeds will go to support the center. 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in the former temporary library space in the IGA Plaza.
CLASSES Spanish Maintenance Classes: Offered for high school students entering Spanish II in the fall who want to keep their skills up and be well prepared. For more information and to register, call Tom Pruiksma at 567-4023 or email thomas@thepoetsmagic.com. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Fridays, July 18, 25, Aug. 1 and 8. Studio Tour Art Camp: This camp for kids ages 10 to 17 will be led by Suzanne Moore, Ilse Reimnitz, Kristen Reitz-Green and Terri Fletcher. Attendees will create art with different mediums in the studios of various island artists. Cost $240 for VAA members and $260 for non-members, with a $35 materials fee for all. For
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more information and to register, go to vashonalliedarts.org. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, July 21, to Friday, July 25. Adult Learn to Row Class: The Vashon Island Rowing Club will offer its annual adult (age 23 and up) learn to row class for anyone interested in the sport. Instruction will be provided by coach Richard Parr and the cost is $100 per person. For more information and to register, go to vashoncrew. com/featured/adultlearntorow. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 26, and 9 a.m. to noon Sunday, July 27, at the Jensen Point Boathouse. Finding Authenticity Through Nature: This Hestia Hearth Circle for women and girls will focus on expanding observation skills, encouraging reflective thinking, trusting intuitive healing and finding inspiration through a meditative labyrinth walk. The cost is $20 and space is limited. For more information and to register, email info@hestiaretreat.org. 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 27. Robotics Camp: Led by Bruce Johns for kids age 9 and up, this intensive two-day camp will include hands-on experience building and launching stomp-style rockets and designing, building and driving Lego Mindstorms moon vehicles. For more information and to register by July 31, go to openspacevashon.com or call 408-7241. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 14, and Tuesday, Aug. 15, at the Open Space for Arts & Community.
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MISS LUCY DINNER: The popular dinner and fundraiser for the Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum is back for this year’s Strawberry Festival. There will be live music and a barbecue dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 18, outside the museum. Tickets, $25 for adults and $10 for kids under 10, are available at the museum and the Vashon Bookshop.
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Visitors could ‘eat 20 miles of strawberries’ on Vashon Island berries are making a comeback By BRUCE HAULMAN & TERRY DONNELLY For The Beachcomber
Echoing Clara Peller’s famous statement in a Wendy’s commercial from the 1980s, “Where’s the beef?� islanders have been asked as we celebrate the annual Strawberry Festival, “Where are the strawberries?� At one time the answer was easy. They were everywhere. But the story of strawberry farming on Vashon-Maury Island is a story of great success, a long lingering decline, a period of absence and the beginnings of a revival. The first commercially grown strawberries on Vashon were probably those grown by John Cage Gorsuch in the early 1890s at his farm just north of Vashon town, where Gorsuch Road is now. This 1893 photograph shows his strawberry farm with amazingly well dressed pickers to our modern sensibilities. In 1896, Gorsuch grew 6,120 pounds of strawberries on each of his 3 acres with an average price $1.40 per 24-pound crate for a return of $357 per acre. Which in 2014 dollars equates to about $9,600 per acre. The sandy, loamy soils of Vashon-Maury Island are well adapted to strawberries. With the island’s mild temperatures and ready access to marine transportation, strawberries quickly became an important crop, and in 1909 John Reed, the publisher of the Vashon Island News, printed a strawberry-shaped promotional brochure that proclaimed Vashon as the “Home of the Big Red Strawberry� and “The Island Gem of the Pacific Coast.� The map of the island, seen in the Spindrifter 1978 reproduction of this 1909 booklet, shows Vashon with a large strawberry prominently centered on the Island. Vashon quickly became known for its strawberries. Vashon strawberries won first place at the 1909 Valley Fair in Puyallup. The 1911 Seattle Republican
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This Oliver Van Olinda photo (above) shows the Gorsuch strawberry farm in 1893. At right, Vashon was often advertised as one of the best places in the region to grow strawberries. newspaper declared, “Vashon Island is the greatest strawberry growing section of the State of Washington.� And in 1912 it was estimated that Vashon would ship 100 rail cars of strawberries. Also in 1912, the Burton Fair advertised “Eat 20 miles of strawberries� as 1,800 visitors came to the island to visit the strawberry farms. Vashon strawberries continued to be celebrated at various Strawberry Festivals at Burton, Vashon and Ellisport. During the 1924 Strawberry Festival at Ellisport, over 2,500 visitors came to the island. During the 1910s and 1920s, Japanese farmers began to immigrate to Vashon to farm strawberries. Although Japanese immigrants were prohibited from buying land then, land was relatively inexpensive to lease, and strawberry farms did not require large acreages to be profitable. The Japanese farmers came to dominate strawberry farming on Vashon, but there were many non-Japanese who continued to grow berries as well. At the center of this success for Vashon strawberries was the once-famous Marshall strawberry. The Marshall was described by food writer James Beard as
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the “tastiest berry ever grown.� It was a great berry for local consumption and for cold packing for use in jams and preserves, but it was a delicate berry that had a very limited shelf life and was not suitable for shipping. As groceries developed fresh produce sections and demanded pretty fruit with a longer shelf life, the Marshall strawberry dropped out of use in favor of more robust but less flavorful strawberries. During the 30 years after World War II, many factors sent Vashon strawberry farming into decline, including inexpensive refrigeration and inexpensive shipping by truck over the new interstate highway system. There were also revised labor laws that no longer allowed children under 12 to pick berries and legislation to improve housing for migrant workers and larger corporate farms developing in California and Florida. Vashon strawberry farmers found they could no longer compete. By the mid-1980s, Vashon strawberry farming had come to an end. Masa Mukai stopped growing
strawberries in 1949, but continued to operate the Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant until 1969 when it closed. In the late 1960s, Augie Takatsuka stopped growing strawberries and turned to other enterprises, mainly Christmas trees. Tok Otsuka continued to grow strawberries in 1979, but soon after changed to growing corn. Dockton farmers continued to grow strawberries into the 1960s, and Fred Ern-isee continued to farm where Island Lumber is today. Yoniechi Matsuda continued to grow strawberries into the early 1980s on his farm behind K2, the last of the large-scale commercial strawberries grown on Vashon. He planted his last crop of strawberries in the early 1980s and after his death in 1985 no more were harvested. Since the mid-1980s there has been no significant strawberry farming on Vashon. There have
been some small attempts at local u-pick type operations as part of other crops, but essentially strawberry farming died on Vashon until recently. Today, however, the Marshall strawberry is being revived on Vashon. Patty Hieb and Hooper Havekotte purchased Helen Brocard’s Dockton house where Helen had planted Marshall strawberries from the Plant Germ/Seed Repository in Corvallis, Oregon. Cindy Stockett found Marshalls at the Bainbridge Island Friends of Farmers and is carefully cultivating them. Patty and Cindy’s are the only sizable patches of Marshalls being grown on the island. Patty has been selling plants at the Saturday Market, and Cindy is preparing hers to be replanted at the Landmarked Mukai Agricultural Complex. This year, for the first time in a generation, you can purchase Vashon strawberries from Sun Island Farm at the Saturday Market and at the Harbor Mercantile farm stand. For Strawberry Festival this weekend, you can find Marshall Strawberries for sale at the Vashon Island Grower’s Association (VIGA) booth. The Vashon Marshall strawberry is back. — Bruce Haulman is a local historian and director of the Vashon History Project at www.vashon history.com. Terry Donnelly is an island photographer.
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SAVE THURSDAY NIGHT FOR MUSIC: Catch live music most Thursday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. at The Hardware Store Restaurant. Upcoming musicians include Roger Taylor on July 17, John Van Amerongen on July 24 and Allison Shirk on July 31. Live Music Thursdays is sponsored by Vashon Events and The Hardware Store Restaurant. There is no cover charge for admission.
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Megan Chenovick will sing the role of Zerlina in Vashon Opera’s production of “Don Giovanni.”
Tickets for Vashon Opera’s 2014-15 season are online Vashon Opera’s sixth season kicks off in September with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Tickets for the 2014-2015 season are on sale now, with individual tickets for “Don Giovanni” going on sale in August. “Don Giovanni” is considered one of the greatest operas. Part comedy, part tragedy, the opera is based on the fictional legends of Spanish libertine Don Juan. Critically acclaimed baritone Anton Belov will make his Vashon debut as Don Giovanni. The New York Times describes Belov as “a baritone with a rich, mellifluous voice.” The rest of the cast includes Janeanne Houston as Donna Anna, Eric Neuville as Don Ottavio, Megan Chenovick as Zerlina and Konstantin Kvach as the Commendatore. In February Vashon Opera will offer “The Music Shop” as a free performance for island children. The opera tells the story of a mild-mannered man who goes to a music store to buy a song, but he can’t remember the title or tune, which creates many amusing capers. The season concludes in May with British composer Benjamin Britten’s “Albert Herring,” a comic opera written in 1947. Witty, poignant and multilayered, the opera highlights the misadventures of a lonely shop-boy in an English village full of colorful characters. To buy tickets for Vashon Opera’s sixth season, visit www. vashonopera.org. Individual tickets for “Don Giovanni” are $35 and go on sale in August.
Who’d a thunk that a play about a stripper could be a family show? But “Gypsy” is and has been since its Broadway premiere in 1959. Drawn from the memoirs of famed burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, the musical with Jule Styne tunes, Stephen Sondheim lyrics and an Arthur Laurents story is all about family with a focus on Mom. Mom is the inimitable Rose who, in a later era, might have been a General Motors CEO. But in 1920s-30s Vaudeville, Rose was a “pushy stage mother” to her two daughters, June and Louise. Some might even call Rose a negligent narcissistic parent, but the greater probability, and the gist of this story, is that Rose simply wants to live through her children, help them realize her own dreams. The story is among the best ever to hit Broadway, as is the music. And Drama Dock’s production of “Gypsy” gives Stephanie Murray as Rose the prefect showcase to deliver on the great tunes as well as the powerful character. Murray doesn’t just sing musical nuggets like “Small World,” “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” and “Rose’s Turn.” She sells every song she tackles, and it’s mesmerizing. The cast of Drama Dock stalwarts and a host of young newcomers throw themselves into the comedy of the story, even when the inevitable opening night glitch turns up, like when Phil Dunn
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Stephanie Murray as Rose and Phil Dunn as Herbie in Drama Dock’s “Gypsy.” deftly kicked an unrelenting alarm clock off stage right in the middle of a full chorus performance of “Mr. Goldstone,” making the already hilarious number even funnier. And, when the telephone wouldn’t stop ringing while the stuffy Miss Cratchitt, played by Sue DeNies, tried to speak her lines to it, she blithely engaged in a Lily Tomlin-esque monologue to the delight of her audience. Phil Dunn, as Rose’s loveenslaved Herbie, proves once again there is no part he can’t pull off with comic poignancy. The two teen sisters, Hanna Fellbaum
as Louise and Maria Gilmour as teen June, dig their emerging chops into their characters, playing well off each other and providing some sweet musical interludes. Fellbaum’s touching performance of “Little Lamb” is the tear-jerker of the show while Gilmour puts her vocal versatility on display in three ensemble numbers with Fellbaum and the boys’ chorus. And Zoey Rice is most convincing as she takes Louise from shy girl to confident young woman in love with the celebrity life she’s crafted. We don’t see enough of Max Lopuszinski, but when we do
see him, he dominates the stage with charm. The song “You Gotta Have a Gimmick” has been one of musical comedy’s most liberally interpreted pieces, and this production is no exception. The three actors playing “seasoned” strippers, Electra (Elise Morrill), Tessie (Kelli Brown) and Mazeppa (Shannon Flora), have such fun with their characters that gutbusting laughter is guaranteed. Director Stephen Floyd pulls off a joyful noise with this production. The set is wisely minimal, allowing almost instant changes in the multiple locations where Rose, Herbie and the girls travel in their quest for show biz success. The set and costume changes can be daunting in a production that covers so many times, places and personalities. With help from the lighting designer, Michael Barker, the story flows easily among dates and locations. One of the things that make live theater great is the evolution of a production and its characters. Unlike Broadway runs, Drama Dock casts and crews only get two weekends to perfect their performances with an audience. For that reason, I’m looking forward to seeing “Gypsy” again this weekend so I can share in the performers’ experience of growing into their parts. “Gypsy” is delicious material to be devoured through laughter and tears by cast and audience alike. — Susan McCabe is an island writer and Voice of Vashon’s station manager.
Two local artists capture island quirks on T-shirts Shirts will be for sale at the Strawberry Festival Responding to a call for making a “cool” island T-shirt and with the aim of visually capturing what they call the quirks Vashon, two island artists — Ellen Parker and Megan Minier of Cowbelle Industries — launched a series of Vashon T-shirts last year at Strawberry Festival. The duo plan to return to a vendor booth this weekend to sell the distinctly Vashon T-shirts at Strawberry Festival. Cowbelle Industries initially farmed out the screening of their T-shirts. This year Parker and Minier took the printmaking reins back into their own hands by using a new textile block-printing ink to give the shirts a more hand-rendered look. They say each piece is unique, that the ink is soft to the touch and that they are pleased to be printing on shirts made
in the USA. Minier grew up on the island wanting to be an artist, cowgirl or rock star. As a printmaker who wears cowboy boots with a trove of karaoke jams at her disposal, Minier says she’s living her dream. Parker grew up using potato cuts and tempera paint during printmaking class at summer camp in New England. After college and a couple of decades overseeing enormous print runs for corporate clients, Parker and her family moved to Vashon, where she joined forces with Minier. Parker also teaches driving, and as she says, sarcasm-as-a-second language to Pacific Northwesterners. Cowbelle Industries will sell their shirts at the Vashon Farmer’s Market through October and will be part of Waterworks Studio collective during the Holiday Artist Studio Tour in December.
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Publish The Quest returns to Vashon Publish the Quest, a band with deep Vashon roots that has made a name for itself worldwide as both a musical and philanthropic force, is coming home to play during the Strawberry Festival. It will play a concert at 9 p.m. Saturday at The Red Bike. Publish The Quest blends groove music melodies with vocally driven compositions. The lyrics question social issues through story telling. Working with a nonprofit called Learn Africa, Publish The Quest has made several recent trips to Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Mali, Poland, Portugal and Spain, where they performed in music festivals and various other venues. After three years of traveling, recording and collaborating, Publish The Quest has just released its full-length album “A Thousand Kinds of Gold!” Recorded in Seattle and locations in Africa, the album features Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, Vieux Farka Toure, Nneka, Edith WeUtonga Katiji, Jeff DeMelle, Caleb Cunningham, Mark Oi, Mike Marlatt, Bill Jones, Matt Chamberlain, Izaak Mills and others. The album is now available on iTunes and will be sold at the show on Saturday. Due to the popularity of this band and the Strawberry Festival weekend, it is highly recommended to arrive early for the show. Tickets, $5, will be available at the door, and ID is required. This is an all-ages show until 11 p.m., then 21 and older after that.
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The King County fire marshal has put a burn ban in place, effective last Monday. The ban applies to all outdoor burning except for small recreational fires in established fire pits at approved camp grounds or private property, according to a King County press release. On Vashon, Fire Chief Hank Lipe said he put a Vashon ban into effect last Friday. “We foresee a higher risk this summer due to the dry conditions,” Lipe said. “People should take it very seriously.” Lipe noted the fire department is trying to reach out to islanders so they better understand the necessity for the ban. Generally, after the Fourth of July, it is extremely dry on the island, Lipe said, noting that this year those conditions developed a bit earlier. “There is large potential for large brush
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more participants are still needed to try to set a record. The current record for rafting up is 2,099 boats. Despite not having many people signed up yet, Johnson said that she is feeling very confident about the event, as the organization is planning an informal registration kickoff at this weekend’s Strawberry Festival. She believes now is about the time people start planning for August, and many won’t actually register until close to the event. “It’s time to put those boats in the water,” she said. “I’m a little nervous about it, but I’m excited to see what Vashon can do.” Johnson had the idea for Raft Up before she began working on Vashon. A couple years ago, she was flipping through a kayaking magazine when she noticed a photo of 1,902 colorful kayaks and canoes rafted up on a lake in Inlet, New York. That recordbreaking event in 2011 raised funds for Susan G. Komen, and Johnson, who had worked for years in social services, thought it would also be a powerful event for a social services agency to put on. “Rafting up” is a term used in kayaking; when there’s danger — high waves or a large boat approaching — kayakers or canoeists will often pull together, grabbing each other’s boat or oars to make themselves sturdier or create a higher profile for a passing ship. Johnson said the metaphor of rafting up is a perfect one for community life and for the mission of VYFS. When she was hired as the agencies new director a few months later, she mentioned the idea and others got excited about it as well. “It speaks to bringing all sorts of people together and recognizing that we’re stronger when we’re together,” Johnson told The Beachcomber last year.
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Since the New York event that Johnson saw in the magazine, the rafting-up record has been set once more, when a group in Sutton’s Bay, Michigan, organized a flotilla of 2,099 boats last year as a fundraiser for their local public schools. Johnson said VYFS decided to aim for 2,500 boats after learning that another group in Illinois will also attempt to break that record the day before Raft Up. “It gives us a cushion,” she said. VYFS originally planned to hold Raft Up last summer over Labor Day weekend, but organizers found there wasn’t enough time to prepare. “The timeline was really too short to get the logistics organized,” Johnson said. “We wanted to do a nice job.” Now, VYFS staff, board members and volunteers have been busy planning for every aspect of the weekend. The record-breaking attempt itself will be “absurdly simple,” Johnson said. Guinness World Records requires that paddlers raft up for just 30 seconds, with an aerial photograph to prove the number of boats and that none of the watercraft were touching the shore. Other details of the day, however, will be more complex. Johnson noted that unlike other places where rafting-up records have been set, Quartermaster Harbor is surrounded by private homes and steep bluffs, making access to the harbor difficult in many spots. At Raft Up, beginning boaters will be encouraged to launch at Jensen Point, where a flotilla about 2 acres or less in size will form just off the shore. At Jensen Point, volunteers will also be on hand to help get boats in and out of the water. VYFS hopes others will launch their kayaks and canoes from locations all around the harbor, and Johnson said she believes some with waterfront homes will even host parties and invite kayakers to put in from their yards. She’s also heard that some people are planning to paddle over from Tacoma. Once
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in the water, boats will go through specified checkpoints before joining the flotilla. “When you consider everyone getting in the harbor and getting out, it can seem daunting,” she said. “But a lot of people are doing it on their own, and they know what they’re doing.” Several island organization have volunteered to help with the event. VashonBePrepared and the Quartermaster Yacht Club are helping with safety planning and emergency preparations, Voice of Vashon will help volunteers communicate, and Shape Up Vashon and Puget Sound Energy — a sponsor of the event — are sending volunteers as well. To add extra appeal to Raft Up, VYFS has organized a weekend of camping and concerts leading up to the main event on Sunday afternoon. Ten local artists are lined up to play a music festival at the Open Space for Arts & Community, which will also be a fundraiser, and more than 200 campsites will be available outside the Open Space and at the Vashon School District campus. Johnson said VYFS decided to make the event into a festival of sorts both to make it more appealing for participants and to encouraged off-islanders to come over early, easing the congestion that could be caused by hundreds of people and kayaks traveling on the ferry. “We’ve been in touch with the ferry system, and they’re not at all worried, but they’re not the ones that have to stand in line,” she said. George Butler, a VYFS board member who until recently was president, said he hopes Raft Up will bring many off-islanders to Vashon, noting that with so many nonprofits and valuable causes on the island, it can sometimes feel like Vashon residents have been tapped out. “It’s a small island, and people are getting heavily taxed,” he said. “How do you come up with something that is going to be attrac-
tive (off-island)? That’s one thing we have working in our favor on this.” The event comes as VYFS, like many nonprofits, is struggling with the lingering effects of the recession. The organization has seen less funding from both government and private sources. In recent months it saw its county funding for the VIVA basic needs program run out, and much of the state funding that was funneled to PlaySpace programs through the Vashon Alliance to Reduce Substance Abuse was recently redirected. Johnson said she believes the financial picture for social service organizations is improving with the economy, but any money raised during Raft Up will help, as it will go directly to fund services and administration. As part of its registration push, VYFS has been posting fliers for the event on and off Vashon, reaching out to local media, sending information to kayak shops and advertising the event on the internet, on social media and in Seattle-area music publications. “We’re at a moment when we really need to be able to raise money so we can maintain services, not cut back further than we’ve had to,” Johnson said. To that end, VYFS has set a fundraising goal of $35,000. Butler noted that it’s possible the organization could not break the record but still meet its fundraising goal. “Part of the fun is breaking the record,” he said. “But if we don’t break the record it doesn’t mean people didn’t have a good time and we didn’t raise money.” Raft Up will be at around 1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17. The music festival begins at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Open Space for Arts & Community. Registration is $25 per boat, and the music festival is $15 per ticket for those participating in Raft Up and $20 otherwise. For more information and to register, see www.vyfs.org/raftup.
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Kirk named festival grand marshal By SUSAN RIEMER Staff Writer
Longtime islander Mike Kirk has been named the grand marshal of this year’s Strawberry Festival. The marshal is an honorary position given to someone each year who has contributed to the Vashon community and made it better. “I am honored. I will do it as long as I do not have to wear a crown,” Kirk joked. Kirk, 72, is known to many as the former principal at McMurray Middle School, where he served for 17 years, and as a volunteer firefighter and EMT, a role he has held for nearly 50 years. He also serves frequently as a substitute teacher in the district’s schools. Kirk’s history as a Vashon educator, however, goes back to 1966, when he began working at the old Burton School, teaching social studies and language arts. In 1968, when McMurray was built, he moved there, he said. He began working as a principal in 1978 as the Vashon Elementary School principal, eventually moving to McMurray in 1987. His long involvement
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Mike Kirk with Vashon Fire & Rescue also included paid employment, he noted, as he served as the interim chief on three occasions and as a training and safety officer. Now, back to being a volunteer, he goes out on about 100 calls a year, he said, with two-thirds of them being of a medical nature and the rest fire related. Shawn Hoffman, the owner of IGA, which is sponsoring the grand marshal contest this year, has had experience with Kirk as a principal and a medic. “He was my principal growing up. He was great,” Hoffman said. “He was very encouraging to the student body and involved
with the students. He was out there and engaged all the time. Later, when Hoffman was older and riding his motorcycle on Vashon, he had an accident, which Kirk responded to. “He picked me up off the road,” Hoffman said. “He sees us at our best and our worst and does not judge. I do not know how many countless lives he has saved.” While many grand marshals make only ceremonial appearances at the festival, including riding in the grand parade on Saturday, Kirk has plans for full participation, including running the 10k in Saturday morning’s Bill Burby race and competing in the firefighter challenge that afternoon. “I can’t let these young firefighters get the best of me,” he said. The decision to award the honor to Kirk was unanimous, Hoffman said. All six members on the committee, despite being from different walks of life, each had a personal connection with Kirk, he noted. “He is kind of an unsung hero,” Hoffman added.
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Teens head to Junior Olympics By SUSAN RIEMER Staff Writer
Two island sophomores will compete in national Junior Olympic competitions later this month. Katherine Andrus will compete in the triple jump at the USA Track and Field national championships in Houston, and Virginia Miller will compete in the javelin at the American Athletic Union national track and field games in Des Moines, Iowa. The events are similar, said Foss Miller, Virginia’s father, but governed by different organizations. Andrus qualified to compete at the national event earlier this month at a regional competition in Spokane. There she earned second place with a triple jump of 36 feet, 1 and a half inches, her personal record for the year.
“It’s pretty exciting,” she said. Andrus began working with a Tacoma-based track coach last year, after islander Todd Pearson, who was volunteering with the McMurray track team, noticed her jumping ability. Pearson set the wheels in motion, and now Andrus is competing with the Flying AJs, a track and field team in Tacoma, 14 of whom qualified for the national event. Andrus said she began training for the triple jump last summer but competed in the event for the first time this spring as a member of the Vashon High School track team. Though struggling with a toe injury, Andrus says she would like to end in the top eight, which is considered an AllAmerican finish. Miller, who was not avail-
able to comment, also came in second in her qualifying meet, which was last weekend in Orlando, according to her father. There she threw the javelin 106 feet and was in a field of 32 participants. Foss Miller, a former high school and college javelin thrower himself, is coaching Virginia, who is known as a natural athlete among her family and friends. The two just started working on the sport, he said. In the national event, there will be 52 javelin throwers, and he said he believes Virginia would be happy to rank in the top 10. He is not sure how far she will want to pursue the sport, though. “Next year it might be volleyball. I don’t know,” he said with a laugh.
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time, it felt to her that little information was available, she said. After remarrying when he girls were 3, her mother had complied with her new husband’s wishes and got rid of most of the reminders of Herbert, his daily letters, uniforms and artwork. This was common practice at the time, Bachant noted. Few women worked outside the home, and if they were widowed, there was little social safety net. Many remarried as a means to raise their children, and the new husbands often wanted mementoes of the first husband gone. “We had nothing to go on,” she recalled. But Bachant, who is a scrapbooker by nature, began to gather information, researching her father’s unit — the 94th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of Patton’s Fourth Armored Division — requesting his records and conducting other research, in sometimes unexpected places. One day at the Vashon Pharmacy, she said, she was looking at the magazines and spotted a commemorative issue of Time magazine about World War ll. Leafing through it, she was startled to come across a picture of herself and her sisters as babies, chewing on war bonds. “I bought every one of their magazines,” Bachant said. Other news came from family, including one of Herbert’s sisters, who, at the time of her death had three Victory Mail letters Herbert had written to her and their mother, including one that said how excited he was to be having triplets. “They were like gold to me,” Bachant said. “That was the first time … that I saw his handwriting, and I was in my 50s.” In a 2009 essay for The Star, a publication of the American World War II Orphans Network, Bachant shared some of her parents’ history. Her parents met when Herbert was a bus driver in The Bronx and Muriel was one of his passengers, she wrote. He was several years older than Muriel, and when they were married in 1941, he had already been drafted, but was released shortly after their wedding, considered then to be too old for service. After the invasion at Pearl Harbor, however, he was recalled to service. While he was in additional training before his deployment, Muriel became pregnant and went on to spend the final six months of her pregnancy in the hospital. She asked him at that time to go AWOL, but he felt it was his duty to serve, despite the impending arrival of triplets. Herbert learned of the girls’ birth through the military newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, which featured their birth on its front page. In a letter to Muriel, Herbert told her how he could not wait to see the girls grow up. Just days after the girls’
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At the time that Nancy Bachant and her triplet sisters were born, this photo of Bachant’s father admiring his wife and new daughters from his post in England ran in many papers in the United States. birth, one of the triplets became very ill, and a soldier was sent to get a blood sample from him to help with the diagnosis. An Associated Press reporter accompanied the soldier and gave Herbert a picture of Muriel and the babies. A photograph of him looking at the picture then circulated in many newspapers in the United States, stating he was looking at his new triplets while he was in a trench in England, waiting for the invasion. After giving birth, Muriel returned home to her apartment, a three-room, fourth-floor walk-up. Although she had some help, caring for her daughters was difficult. In July, Muriel wrote to the commanding general of Herbert’s division, asking that he be released to help with the daughters. The next month, Muriel was notified that Herbert was missing in action. In September, she learned that he had been killed on Aug. 1. The general wrote Muriel back personally, apologizing and informing her that her letter had arrived after Herbert had been killed. Muriel always felt guilty she waited so long to write the letter, Bachant said. Muriel lived to be 90, dying just last year in the New Jersey community where she had lived most of her adult life. She never got over Herbert’s death, Bachant said, and asked to be buried next to him, a wish the daughters were able to carry out. And now, 70 years after their father’s death, Bachant, her sisters and their family
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June 15: A burglary was reported on the 17300 block of 96th Place SW, where jewelry, coins and rosary beads were stolen from a bedroom dresser. June 16: Theft was reported at Core Centric. An assault and attempted car theft were reported at the IGA Market, where a suspect punched a store clerk while trying to steal a car. June 17: A burglary was reported on the 17900 block of 97th Place SW, where medication was stolen from a kitchen bread box. Theft was reported at Pure, when an item was taken from behind the building. Vandalism was reported at The Land Trust Building, where an electric fence was cut. Trespass was reported at the Red Bicycle Bistro. June 21: An assault was reported on the 17900 block of 97th Place SW during an argument between a mother and daughter. June 25: A suspect was detained at Spider’s Ski and Sport after the person was seen riding a stolen bike. June 26: A theft was reported at the OCCU
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The Vashon Presbyterian Church is offering reserved parking by donation again this year. The church also offers chairs for a comfortable view of the parade. Through the congregation’s connection with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance, the festival fundraiser will support children in refugee camps in Syria that have resulted from the civil war there. The church is happy to accept donations to assist these
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parking lot where wire was stolen from a Puget Sound Energy truck. June 29: An assault was reported at the Vashon Library, where an altercation occurred between a father and son. June 30: Vandalism was reported on the 17900 block of 97th Place SW. July 1: A bicycle was found near the 22000 block of 103rd Avenue SW. Theft was reported on the 10800 block of Vashon Highway, where makeup and jewelry were taken from a vehicle parked near the ferry dock. July 3: A civil problem was reported between landlords and tenants on the 8100 block of SW 222nd Place. July 4: A trespass was reported at the K2 building when someone broke in, claiming to be fleeing from “bigfoot.” July 5: An illegal firearm discharge was reported when a bullet came through the ceiling of a home. An assault was reported on the 17200 block of 97th Place SW, where a person was stabbed in the leg with a kitchen knife. July 6: Threats were reported by a woman who said that she was being harassed by a neighbor, on the 8100 block of SW 222nd Place. Aggravated assault was reported on the 16800 block of Cove Walk, where two men fought and one bit off part of the other’s ear. A wallet was found near the OCCU parking lot. Drunk and disorderly conduct was reported on the 12500 block of SW 154th Street.
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“That doesn’t mean we don’t want to come back,” he said. “That means that this year we can’t make it work.” Paradise Amusements, a carnival company based in Post Falls, Idaho, brought rides and carnival games to the Strawberry Festival for at least 15 years, according to Quintana. Last year, the chamber decided to hire a different carnival company, a decision Marsh said came after many unsuccessful attempts to get Paradise to send better rides to the festival and help plan for the carnival in a new location. “I was looking to improve the festival, and they came with a good package,” Marsh said of the other company. The chamber was happy with the new company’s carnival, but the company declined to return Vashon a second year, as it didn’t make enough money. In January, Marsh said, he asked Paradise to return to the festival. This year’s carnival was to be smaller than previous years,
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Joe Pringle Joe Pringle, 53, a longtime resident of Seattle and Vashon, Washington, passed away Friday July 4th after a life filled with love and true joy. He was born on July 6th, 1960 and in his life he became many wonderful things, a devoted husband of 24 years, and a father of three, a friend to many, and a faithful follower of Jesus. His was a story that was surprisingly deep, rich, and inspirational, from being a missionary behind the Iron Curtain, raising children and investing in his family, being a small business owner, and in the past few years being so incredibly faithful in serving his church despite challenging health issues. Joe was most happy when he was with his children, Kyle, Brooke and Emily, and supporting those around him. His generous and gentle spirit lives on in the hearts of those he touched. His story is in its final act in eternity, and for those of us who have been a part of it, we have an opportunity to help write a fantastic epilogue. A memorial will be held in the Daniels Recital Hall at Mars Hill Church, 801 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, at 11:00am on Saturday, July 19th. Please join us afterwards for a gathering with family and friends on Vashon Island at the Nespor home at 6:30pm, 9510 SW 268th Street, Vashon Island, WA 98070 to celebrate the life of this wonderful man.
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mal because of the space constraints. “It put us at a financial risk that we were not willing to take,” Marsh said, noting that he also understands the company wants to make money. “We’re not running a festival to pay a carnival company,” he added. Marsh said it seemed like Paradise may reconsider and he hoped they could work out a different agreement “even to the point where I had the field mowed today,” he said Monday, but by late Monday it was clear there wouldn’t be an agreement in time for the festival, and Paradise confirmed that it wouldn’t send rides to Vashon this year. The contract disagreement highlights the chamber’s increasing struggle to set up a carnival at the Strawberry Festival. With two carnival companies unable to bring in as much money as they’d like on Vashon, Marsh said it’s also becoming increasingly difficult to find a place to locate the carnival. New construction is filling spaces around town, and business owners are unable to give over entire parking lots to the carnival. “As real estate and the townscape changes, where can you put something like that that keeps it in the festival?” he said. Marsh said the chamber has been con-
sidering if the carnival may actually be replaced one day with something else that appeals to children, and he’s already heard some creative suggestions. While it’s unlikely organizers can pull together anything to replace the carnival this weekend, Marsh and Griffith say they’ll be seriously considering how the festival, which draws around 40,000 people each year, may evolve after this. For instance, Marsh said, some companies offer different types of carnivals, or perhaps the island could do something more homegrown. “We can look at what could we create versus what have we created,” he said. Griffith agreed, and said that while the chamber will be open to continuing the carnival again in the future, it will also be brainstorming and will be open to new ideas. “I think it’s an opportunity as much as it is an enormous pain in the butt to have to do this at the last minute,” she said. “Let’s look at it as an opportunity to do something better.” Editor’s note: The Strawberry Festival guide inside this issue includes information on the carnival that should be disregarded. The guide went to press before the carnival was canceled.
Philip Leslie Kallsen Like his baby-boomer cohorts, Phil Kallsen spent the 1950s with Mickey Mouse, Scrooge McDuck and a shockingly messy school desk. Phil’s plan was to work for Walt Disney, cranking out celluloid cells at the rate of (12 frames per second). The morning after a parentteacher conference, Phil discovered a note in his desk: “get to work.” Over time, Phil internalized Pop Kallsen’s credo: “Work is the thing that makes men sing.” Phil never stopped working and, thanks to his mother Mavis who nurtured his creative side, he never stopped having fun. As it turned out, Phil didn’t work for Walt. He was one of the fortunate few: self employed in a career he loved, he would shape his clients’ visions into their brick and mortar dreams. In the late 1960s, Phil graduated from the University Of Washington School of Architecture. He went to work for Binden and Wright in Seattle and learned the biz from his mentor George Hartman. It was 1972 when he met Peggy, the love of his life, and the woman he always called “honey-pie.” They married in 1977 and ever since have enjoyed sunsets, sea breezes, eagles and the occasional osprey from the deck of their home on Vashon Island, WA. Among his many hobbies, Phil loved mountain climbing, fly-fishing, topiary and beach preservation. Phil is survived by his four favorite women: wife Peggy and daughters Shannon, Melissa, and Robin Kallsen. He is also survived by his siblings Bunny (Larry West), Laurie (Kinne Hawes), Maryann (Michael Deblasi) and Ron Kallsen. He was Uncle Phil to many, Santa to hundreds and a geoduck digging hall-of-famer to all who knew him well. ... If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaduct of your dreams where immobile steal rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop ... Could you find me?
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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! This well-known, much loved retail space is LGHDO IRU <285 QHZ EXVLQHVV /RWV RI SDUNLQJ lots of storage, easy access; everything you need to succeed! MLS #469332 $365,000
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